Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-02-05 | Page 2 | Taft Eyes Headlines, Democrats Assert

Congress Today Taft Eyes Headlines Democrats Assert I Combined UP and AP I WASHINGTON Feb 5 Senate 5 Senate Democrats Saturday accused Sen I Robert A A. Taft R R. Ohio of head head- line hunting and inaccuracy in contending contending con con- tending that the Taft-Hartley Taft labor law will be repealed in name only I The charges were made during senate labor committee hearings 4 on the administrations administration's bill to repeal re repeal repeal re- re peal the Taft-Hartley Taft law and reenact reenact reenact re- re enact the Wagner Vagner act with improvements im irn They were touched of off by Tafts Taft's press conference statement Friday that the law lav which he coauthored would be repealed in name only Taft also predicted that about two- two thirds of the provisions of the Taft- Taft Hartley HarUey law la would be retained Forgets Forgett Fact Sen Claude Pepper D. D Fla accused Taft of making inaccurate inaccurate rate and erroneous predictions He said Taft is forgetting the fact that hes he's no longer running the senate Sen Matthew 1 M. M Neely D. D W. W Va made the hunt headline ing ch charge rge Earlier Sen James E. E Murray D D. D Mont called Tafts Taft's sta statement temen t propaganda The up flare-up came when Ludwig Teller a New York labor law consultant consultant con con- consultant said the Democratic party could do labor no greater harm than to pass to-pass pass the administration tion bill Teller also testified that it would be preferable for tor the government to seize plants in dealing dealIng deal deal- ing with strikes affecting the national national national na na- na- na welfare Under questioning by Sen Humphrey Humphrey Hum Hum- D. D Minn Teller said Walter Valter Walter Wal Val ter Reuther president of oC the C CIO I 0 United Automobile Workers Yorkers has done a good job of ridding his union of Communists View on lurra 1 Murray Humphrey asked ed about Philip Murray C CIO I 0 president I think he has been relatively ineffective in driving out Communists Communists Com Corn to the witness said He said he thinks the C CIO I 0 is not dominated Communist-dominated but Com Corn Humphrey asked whether there Is any evidence of Communist in infiltration infiltration in in- filtration in the International Typographical union Certainly not Teller replied But he said the IT ITU I T U has been gradually strangling the printing and publishing industry with the closed shop and regulation of ot ap ap- ap- ap prentices Teller said t that hat h a t Woodruff Randolph I IT ITU T U president had decided that he was bigger than the government and decided he was going to repudiate the Taft Taft- t Hartley HarUey law and he said so Randolph is scheduled che to testify during the hearings Other congressional developments developments develop develop- ments ments- Filibuster Senate Dem Democrats rats unanimously a agreed reed at a party I I caucus to oppose a Republican move Monday to force immediate consideration of a proposal to curb senate filibusters Sen William Villiam F. F Knowland R. R Cal CaI plans to introduce in introduce in- in traduce Monday a resolution that would force the limiting debate-limiting proposal out of the rules commit commit- tee The Democrats want to block blockI I Knowland's move until the rules committee can decide what kind of a limiting debate-limiting plan to okeh The committee meets Wednesday But Knowland wants the senate to act on legislation immediately